The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Daily 4.12

Investing

Published: April 12, 2010 7:20 am

Last Updated: April 12, 2010 7:52 pm

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million Twitter users.

24/7 Wall St. will look at the Twitter posts at Reuters Biz, WSJ, Financial Times, CNN Money, MarketWatch, CNBC, and 24/7 Wall St. each day to see which stocks are most frequently mentioned. It is clear that in this area of social media these tweet are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. These financial sites are followed by a combined 625,000 Twitter users which makes them a sizeable sample of Wall St.’s interests. In some cases, we will publish the actual tweets from the sites.

Among the daily top trending symbols on stock twitter aggregator StockTwits are Palm (PALM), VMWare (VMW), Adobe (ADBE), and Intel (INTC).

WSJDealJournal Deal Journal: Deals of the Day: Palm Puts the ‘For Sale’ Sign Out http://bit.ly/9zgqq6

WSJDealJournal Deal Journal: United, US Airways Talks at Key Juncture http://bit.ly/abwJbk

CNN Money IBM helps New York go after tax deadbeats http://bit.ly/dvBX3g

Reuters Biz: MasterCard names former Citi executive Banga CEO http://link.reuters.com/qem47j

FT: UBS expects SFr2.5bn first-quarter profit: UBS reveals first-quarter profits before tax will be at least SFr2.5bn … http://bit.ly/b7zfhi

FT: Business apps help sales of Apple devices: Companies are snapping up hundreds of iPads and so many groups are hand… http://bit.ly/9P1eZQ

Douglas A. McIntyre

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